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Open Minds - Diabetes and Depression: A Tale of Three Cities
Miscellaneous

Open Minds - Diabetes and Depression: A Tale of Three Cities

...Studies in the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care at The Open University. She has an international reputation for research in the psychosocial field of diabetes. Her research interests have two overlapping strands. The first focuses on the relationship between diabetes and mental health and its impact on the individual and on health service provision. The second...
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Article 5 mins
Alternative education: listening to the voices of young people
Education & Development

Alternative education: listening to the voices of young people

...study aimed to capture the educational values and concerns of home-educated youth through their selected images, revealing their experiences and priorities. [What survey participants said they value most and least about their education] Fig. 1: What survey participants said they value most and least about their education The findings were revealing: some families find...
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Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...skills and academic outcomes equivalent to or even ‘better’ than their schooled peers (see Medlin, 2013; Pearlman-Avnion and Grayevsky, 2019; Ray, 2013; Tweni et al., 2022; and Unger Madar and BenDavid-Hadar, 2022). However, it is noteworthy that evaluating the variety of social and academic ‘outcomes’ of home education is challenging. Standardised measures of...
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Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...skills, which were significant to the successful economic wealth of Britain and her colonies. Equiano worked in collaboration with leading abolitionists Rev. Peter Peckard, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce and Granville Sharp and other influential individuals to promote dialogue on the abolition of slavery. It was known that Equiano was an informant to Granville Sharp...
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Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...study that was launched in 2009. The core STiP modules were designed to draw upon and develop experiences and skillsets of mostly mature-age students wanting to enhance their individual professional practice. Understanding STiP is presented in two parts introducing three core STiP activities based on a STiP heuristic for making strategy and improving ‘wicked’...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Saint David's Day collection | Casgliad Dydd Gŵyl Dewi
Languages

Saint David's Day collection | Casgliad Dydd Gŵyl Dewi

As we celebrate St David's Day, the patron saint of Wales, you can learn more about Welsh language, culture and society with these free online learning resources...[Jesus Chapel St David] FREE ONLINE COURSES FREE ARTICLES AND ACTIVITIES Explore more from OpenLearn Study with The Open University
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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Dark matter
Science, Maths & Technology

60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Dark matter

Fritz Zwicky was a Swiss astronomer who discovered Dark Matter in the Universe. But what's the matter with dark matter?...Find out more about The Open University's Natural Sciences courses. Transcript Read Stephen Serjeant on the subject of dark matter Discover how you can study physics and astronomy with The Open University
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Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...skills through simple and exciting physics, chemistry and biology experiments...This practical, hands-on course aims to help you start thinking like a scientist by carrying out experiments at home and making scientific observations. You will carry out simple experiments to extract the DNA from fruit or vegetables, observe osmosis in action and bake a potato to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs